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Former Vice President Dick Cheney died at age 84 on Monday, Nov. 3

His family shared his cause of death in a statement

Cheney previously survived five heart attacks and a heart transplant

Dick Cheney died at the age of 84 on Monday, Nov. 3.

The former vice president’s family shared his cause death was “complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.”

The family added in their statement, “His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed.”

Cheney served as the vice president under former President George W. Bush as well as the White House Chief of Staff, Wyoming’s Congressman and Secretary of Defense.

Throughout his career, Cheney had a series of health struggles, including five heart at

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